in my opinion your strategic build-up was excellent from the beginning. You succeeded to control the central sea by three ships only. To my advantage only temporarily. You made some little mistakes, I made a big mistake at least. It happens. It was a challenging match I enjoyed very much. I target a quicker second match.

Andreloha wrote:We can still play the rules of no extra build like in this game, you decide.

Yes, it appeals to me more.

Andreloha wrote:With my friend, we used to change the Quest move penalty. Instead of being 4-8-12-16-20 move penalty on opponents, we would do 2-4-8-12-16 move penalty on opponents to reduce the power of the first to the quest. I leave it up to you to decide.

Agreed since you are more familiar with the bigger board.

Andreloha wrote:Also we need to make sure we have the same board and the same map numbering (see attached).

I hope all is well with you I am back from Japan and recovered from the jet lag so we can start our 4P board game. Since you won, you may have the honors to start. I guess there are 4 players not aligned N-S, so would be NW as 1, NE as 2, SE as 3 and SW as 4?